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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 21h

Young Republicans group chat.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 16h

Tish James lit up the room last night — and her words echoed far beyond the walls of The United Palace. This is a fight for the future.

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Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 1d

AKA war supplies

Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 1d

The Portland ICE protest camp literally has a rack full of inflatable costumes for demonstrators who want to try one on...

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War Noir @warnoir.bsky.social · 2d

#Palestine / #Israel 🇵🇸🇮🇱: Al-Qassam Brigades ( #HAMAS ) released first batch of prisoners in #Gaza after the ceasefire.

Some members are notably carrying 5.56x45mm #NATO "IWI Tavor X95" bullpup assault rifles —trophy weapons captured from #IDF.

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 4d

Given crypto bros have gotten their wish on being a regulations free zone, no federal agency is ever going to investigate this massive level of insider trading which impacted over 1.6 million crypto traders.

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kajak.bsky.social @kajak.bsky.social · 2d

the reign of the Black Pharoaoh has officially begun, the air hums with old mathematics and unclean geometry @cstross.bsky.social

👁🌻🦊⚙️⚓ Bob, Engineer, Pusher of Paper @navmecheng.bsky.social · 4d

> It is 2025 BC. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

> It is 2025 AD. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

Soldiers at the Bass Pro Shops pyramid in Memphis, TN.

kajak.bsky.social @kajak.bsky.social · 2d

We live in an age where metaphors are taken literally, as if we were all little kids. Demonization of one’s adversaries √ Peter Thiel “Greta and Eliezer, they are the Antichrist" mashable.com/article/pete...

Peter Thiel reportedly linked Greta Thunberg and AI skeptics to the Antichrist

In a four-part lecture series on his views of religion, billionaire Peter Thiel reportedly said Luddites are the Antichrist.

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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 5d

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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kajak.bsky.social @kajak.bsky.social · 5d

Repression with the aesthetics of video games could be termed meme-repression

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The Onion @theonion.com · 5d

Israel Agrees To Go Back To Killing Palestinians On Less Frequent Basis

CAIRO—As part of a historic ceasefire agreement with Hamas following two years of war, the Israeli government reportedly agreed Thursday to go back to killing Palestinians on a less frequent basis. “I...

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kajak.bsky.social @kajak.bsky.social · 5d

Precisely bsky.app/profile/atru...

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6d

RFK Jr on Tylenol and autism: "It is not proof. We're doing the studies to make the proof."

kajak.bsky.social @kajak.bsky.social · 6d

Hannah Arendt’s imperial boomerang at work: as the U.S. retreats from global hegemony, it turns its military power inward, building a domestic occupation force, ICE, Border Patrol, their violence gamified to recruit the next generation of oppressors

Wesley Morgan @wesleymorgan.bsky.social · 8d

First instance I’ve seen of CBP paramilitaries inserting for one of these urban operations by helicopter (fast-roped from Black Hawks, presumably CBP AMO ones).

Hard to imagine a plausible tactical rationale, but easy to guess another one: this is *great* content for CBP’s aggro recruiting videos.

Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 8d

CHICAGO (AP) — Storming an apartment complex by helicopter as families slept. Deploying chemical agents near a public school. Handcuffing a Chicago City Council member at a hospital.

apnews.com/article/chic...

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kajak.bsky.social @kajak.bsky.social · 8d

"The philosopher Simone Weil (1909–1943) crisply explained why what we have come to call a “free market of ideas” must fail: facts cost labor, fictions do not" Timothy Snyder www.nybooks.com/online/2019/...

goldmartin @gillmartin.bsky.social · 8d

Why Trump and all the other liars lie

Jonathan Swift :

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Fonsi Loaiza @fonsiloaizap.bsky.social · 8d

Greta Thunberg al llegar al aeropuerto de Atenas. Enorme.

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Michael de Jong @sprakeloos.bsky.social · 8d

Greta Thunberg after being released #FreedomFlotilla

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Robert J. Sawyer @robertjsawyer.com · 9d

Happy FlashForward Day!

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kajak.bsky.social @kajak.bsky.social · 12d

administration’s spin on this is deliberately deceptive. And I mean that. We’re not talking about just a difference of opinion about medical or scientific issues. The document issued by the Trump White House literally double-counts studies to make it look as if there is more evidence in their favor

Derek Lowe @dereklowe.bsky.social · 12d

New post. The whole acetaminophen/autism story is a disgusting little scale model of how the entire Trump administration works:

Acetaminophen and Autism: The Trump Administration Style

www.science.org

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Derek Lowe @dereklowe.bsky.social · 12d

New post. The whole acetaminophen/autism story is a disgusting little scale model of how the entire Trump administration works:

Acetaminophen and Autism: The Trump Administration Style

www.science.org

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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 13d

Seven years ago today, Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi was tortured, murdered and then dismembered. And any so-called comedian who can't stand up tonight in Riyadh and do ten minutes on that kind of hijinx and horseplay just isn't worth the Saudi blood money he's being paid.

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kajak.bsky.social @kajak.bsky.social · 13d

da quello che ho visto nelle news negli ultimi anni, i fiumi pieni di merda in Uk non è metaforico e si capisce perchè

Daniela Gabor @danielagabor.bsky.social · 13d

UK privatises water, lets financiers turn it into an asset class, extract billions, pollute our rivers and now Labour government
may let them pollute for another 15 (!!!) years instead of nationalising Thames Water?

incredible.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 14d

In a city of world-class artists and production crew hunting for the next gig, Andrew Cuomo made a TV ad the same way he wrote his housing policy: with AI.

Then again, maybe a fake Cuomo is better than the real one?

An AI generated image of Andrew Cuomo driving a train.

An AI generated image of Andrew Cuomo working on the outside of a building.

An AI generated image of Andrew Cuomo on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange.

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History Today @historytoday.com · 15d

The lifelong rivalry of two #earlymodern Neapolitan printers was a battle of books, power, and, ultimately, fire.

🔓 Laura Incollingo’s new History Matters is free for 7 days

www.historytoday.com/archive/hist...

The Race to Write a History of Naples

www.historytoday.com

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Charlie Stross @cstross.bsky.social · 16d

I know mocking peoples' appearance is an ass move, but Larry Ellison's meatsack is clearly a decade past its use-by date and he *really* needs to go back to hell for a refit: his Beelzebub is showing.

Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 17d

Larry Ellison envisions a surveillance state in which techbros rule. '“Citizens will be on their best behavior, because we’re constantly recording and reporting everything that is going on,” Ellison said in an hour-long Q&A during Oracle’s Financial Analyst Meeting last week.'

Larry Ellison predicts rise of the modern surveillance state where ‘citizens will be on their best behavior’ | Fortune

Oracle's Larry Ellison believes citizens and police alike will be under constant surveillance of each other.

fortune.com

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Sexy CHOAM Nomsky costume @samthielman.com · 16d

added some sound

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Zeke Hausfather @hausfath.bsky.social · 22d

In a UN speech today, President Trump said that "all of these [climate] predictions were wrong".

Back in 2019 I led a research effort to digitize old climate model projections and assess how well they did. Turns out they got future warming pretty spot on!

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